North Dakota State University

Link to the NDSU Digital Measures site is: https://www.digitalmeasures.com/login/ndsu/faculty. When you sign in just enter the first part of your NDSU email address and your password.

 How to login

•Manage Activities: Add or update information about the activities you accomplish.

•Rapid Reports: Provides a quick way to see how the data will be presented

•Run Reports: Custom built reports or allows you to create your own reports.

•Help: Allows you to submit suggestions on how to improve the system, questions about use of the system, or report system errors.

•Notifications: Bell icon shows you notifications and messages from Digital Measures, including real-time information on new features and capabilities, as well as important system events like scheduled maintenance. You can find feature tips, ways you can reduce data entry, and quick takeaways. 

The Manage Activities Menu is broken into several screens. To access a screen, click its name. The resulting screen displays records that are stored for that screen. There are six possible actions you can take from the resulting screen, although not all of these actions will always be available:

1. To add a new record, select the Add button. 
2. To import items in bulk, select the Import button (only for the Published Work screen)
3. To delete a record, select the appropriate check box, and then select the Delete button. 
4. To view or edit a record, click on the record.
5. To copy a record, select the Duplicate button.

Note: For records that you can view but not edit or delete, these have been added to the system for you and have been set as uneditable. If such records need revision, contact DM Administrator using the Help link.

PasteBoard is a tool that allows you to copy‐and‐paste data from other sources (i.e. MS Word, Excel, HTML or text files) into the DM data entry boxes. You can copy approximately 2,000 words at one time. To use the PasteBoard:

• Click on the PasteBoard tab on the toolbar in the bottom‐right corner of DM screen.
• Copy and paste the content from your original document into the PasteBoard window.
• Once your data has been put in the PasteBoard window, you can cut-and-paste it into DM data boxes.

If you navigate to other screens (or hide the Pasteboard window) within DM, the content will stay in the PasteBoard. The PasteBoard window is resizable and can be moved to another positon on the screen.  

Adding Another Investigator/Author Name

NOTE: You CAN change or delete records linked to your account, despite the lock icon. If there is an error with the data in the record, anyone linked to it can go in and make changes.

SCENARIO EXAMPLE:

• Faculty member A creates a record and tags A faculty member B, but faculty member B already created the record in their account, so now there is a duplicate.
• Faculty member B logs into their account and notices they have a duplicate.

See step-by-step instructions Change or Delete Linked Record

Run Rapid Reports, see guide Run Rapid Reports (e.g., Annual Report, Vita)

1. On the top-right corner, select Rapid Reports.
2. To run a report, select the Report template from the drop down menu.
3. Change the Start Date so that Digital Measures can assemble your data. This step is important. Select dates that apply to the report you are generating. For example, the Annual Faculty Activity Report covers only January 1-December 31 whereas tenure and promotions reports may need the Start Date to be six years or more.
4. Select the File Format (e.g., Word, PDF, or HTML).

1. Navigate to Google Scholar. Enter your Google credentials to sign in.

2. Select “My Citations link at the top of the screen. If you are not yet logged in, enter your credentials to sign in. Upon signing in you should land on your profile page where you will see a list of your "articles."

3. If you would like to export only select articles to your BibTex file, choose these from your profile. If you would like to export all of your articles, simply click on the checkbox labeled “Title” which will select all of your articles.

4. Once you’ve made your selections select the Export option and choose BibTex as your file format. You will be redirected to a new page which will display the articles in simple text format. Right click anywhere on the page and select "Save Page As" from the drop down menu. This will convert your articles into BibTeX format.

5. Next, you'll need to save it as a .bib file. For more information please see the Google Scholar help guide

Once you have a BibTex file of your citations, go to “Published Work” screen and click on “Import Items.”

See the Import Tool Guide:http://www.digitalmeasures.com/activity-insight/docs/directdataimports/

Example of BibTex File: Annette.Ruiz.Citations

For complete instructions to export BibTeX files from the databases listed below, visit: https://www.digitalmeasures.com/activity-insight/docs/bibtex.html

• EndNote X6 (for MAC) or X7 (for Windows)
• EndNote Web
• HeinOnline
• Mendeley Desktop for Windows
• PubMed
• RefWorks
• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Zotero Online
• Zotero Standalone